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J. SMITH. HARNESS SADDLE.

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' UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

JEFFREY SMITH,^0F ASHLAND, NEBRASKA. i

HARNESS-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 452,443, dated May 19, 1891.

Application led October 20, 1890. Serial Nol 368,691. (No model.)

To all w/wm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JEFFREY SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Saunders and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Pads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates, generally, to harness attachments, and more particularly to an improved construction of the pad-skirt, whereby the said skirt and girth-billets may be adj usted to suit any-sized animal and also bring the trace-bearers into proper position.

The object of my invention is to provide a sectional pad-skirt, said sections being adj ustable upon each other, whereby the girthbillet will lit any-sized animal.

With this end in view my invention consists in the peculiar construction ofthe various parts and the novel combination or arrangement of the same, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and designated in the appended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which the same referencenumerals indicate the same parts, Figure l is a perspective view of my improvement as apA plied. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the lower end of the upper section, and Fig. 5 is a detail View of the upper end of the lower section.

In the practical embodiment of my invention I employ a harness-pad 10 of the usual or any. approved pattern, and secured to the same are the skirts 11, carrying the tracebearers 12, and at the end of said skirts are secured the girth-billets 13. The trace-bear ers are ot' the usual or any particular pattern and secured in any suitable manner, and the girth-billets are constructed and secured as usual. The pad-skirts, however, are divided transversely into two sections, the upper section 11 and the lower section 11", as most clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The upper section 11n is adapted to slide behind the lower section 11b, and upon the lower end of the upper section and upon the face adjacent to the lower section is secured a metallic strip 14, said strip being arranged parallel with the lower edges or the upper section, the ends of said metallic strip projecting later ally from each side being turned up and around the edges of the lower section 111. A metallic box-loop 14a, formed of sheet metal, is secured to the upper end of the lower section, said loop being essentially rectangular in shape and through which slides the upper section 11. A supplemental metallic boX loop 1G is formed integral with the loop 14, said loop beingarran ged below the loop 14 and is much smaller in area, and rests ina different vertical plaue-that is, it rests entirely upon the outer side of the lower section-tl1e purpose of which will appear farther on. A buckle 17 is secured to the outer face of section 11b near the upper end of the same, and to the upper section 11 is secured a strap 18, said strap being secured near the upper end of the skirt-section 111. The strap 1S, as clearly shown, passes through the box-loop 16 and through the buckle 17, where it is secured, the free end of the strap being confined in an ordinary leather box-loop 19, secured to section 11b below the buckle.

The various parts being constructed and arranged as shown and described, it will be seen that the sections slide easily upon each other, being guided in their movements by the metallic box-loop 14 and the metallic strip 14, with its ends embracing the lower section. The sections are easily adjustable by means of the strap and buckle, whereby the skirts and girthbillets may be made to suit various-sized horses.

Having thus described myinventiou, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the upper section, of the lower section sliding thereon, the metallic strip secured to the lower end of the upper section and embracing the edges of the lower section, the double metallic box-loop secured to the upper end of the lower section, the buckle secured to the lower section, and the strap secured to the upper section, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' JEFFREY SMITH. IVituesses:

ROBERT J. Doon,

O. M. GILBERT.

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